The Last Tea Party

[mgc1961]

More than 100,000 angry citizens united in the nation’s capital to take their country back: back from the tax collector and the political and financial elites, back from bureaucrats and backroom wheelers and dealers and, more elusively and alarmingly, back from those who, well, were not like them.

These weren’t the incensed Americans who helped elect Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race and who rallied around conservative candidates in the Illinois primary on Tuesday; this scene didn’t take place at the Tea Party demonstration in Washington last year. These protesters were gathered in France a half-century ago: Last week was the 55th anniversary of the mass demonstration in Paris of the Poujadist movement, a phenomenon that bears a close resemblance to our own Tea Party. For a brief moment, the movement threatened the very foundations of the French Republic. A comparison between France then and America now may be instructive.

More at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/opinion/03zaretsky.html

[old mark]

1. Rec. Very interesting article, and I believe the baggers will have a similar outcome -

fading away.

mark

[opihimoimoi]

2. There goes the FUN....them baggers make funny signs...I noes I iz gonna missum

[spiritual_gunfighter]

3. Great article K&R n/t